Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for telling
Synonyms for telling: impressive, relation and telltale. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for telling
Interchangeable with telling in this sense
Audited under telling's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one telling carries in that sense.
- impressiveadjective, in the sense "producing a strong effect"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name telling as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
one of these comes from telling's own entry in the bank, and two were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
producing a strong effect
The lawyer landed a telling blow in his closing argument.
The true synonym
impressive
Same sentence, swapped: The lawyer landed a impressive blow in his closing argument.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- revealing
- weighty
- special
Where telling turns up in the game
telling is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where telling is the trap
- specialadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is particular, in the sense "surpassing what is common or usual or expected", and telling is on the board beside it.
- notificationnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is notice, in the sense "a request for payment", and telling is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play telling
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so telling reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from thinking and knowing at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The same bank, read from both sides
telling is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.